St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-01
THE LOOKER-IN.
He Sets Out Pa1atabie Bill of
Fare for the Globes Dakota

He Sets Out Paiatable Bill of
Fare for the Globes Dakota
Readers.
From the Globes Special Staff Correspondent
WATERTowN, Sept. 29.-Is notice
that Editor Bowen, of the Press
and Dakotian, denies that he ever
approached Gov. Church with charges
against the Yankton boodlerS. Now,
Mr. Bowen, will you stand up and be
sworn? Did you, or did you not, go to
Huron with the purpose of submitting
charges against the YanktOn board of
the Dakota Hospital for The Insane; and
did you not meet John Bates, of
that city, land relate to him these charges
that you wished to make against the
Yankton board? Did you not say that
you had proof of their venality
and corruption of all kinds in
the management of the asylum?
And will not Mr.. Bates take his oath to
this effect? Now. Mr.. Bowen, will you
say that you did not have this converse
ton with Mr.. Bates? You will not. 1t
is true, Mr.. Bowen that, you did not see
the governor, and that he had no knowl-
edge of the charges against the board;
but you made the charges publicly, just
the same, and now with just as much
energy, are attempting to shield these
boodlerS.
THE PEOPLE AND THE RAILROADS.
That was a splendid cartoon of the
GLOBE's-and one that every person in
Dakota could ppreciate-shOwing up
the relation of the Northern Pacific
railroad to the people of Dakota. 1t
spoke thousand times palmer than
words could have done. 1t told the
whole story in every light, and with all
ife,h no orti &c
pictured out in way that the mind can
readily grasp. that these, Edwards and
Pierce and their cohorts and followers,
have placed themselves in the position
of tools of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. Edwards and Pierce have no
reasons of their own for fighting the
administration on this question of taxa
ton, and it must be that
they are hired by the Northern
Pacific road to assist that road in
fighting the government. Yes, that
picture told all this and more, too. 1t
showed the railroads on one side, and
eminent, on the other. The two are
opposed. and the railroad Is fighting the
people and the people are making the
best resistance that they can.
The questions that naturally
arise in the mind of the taxpayer are:
Is the railroad to be greater than tine
people? Will the railroad undertake to
fight the government, and not only re-
sist the collection of the taxes assessed
against them, but even
ATTEMPT TO DICTATE THE WAY
in which the government shall assess
and collect its taxes? Will the farming
and laboring classes stand this? The
administration has taken clear and
decided stand that the railroads do
not control or govern this country, and
that they must be taxed, and pay their
taxes under the law the same as all
other property holders. The people
will have the assistance of the present
officials, and the whole weight of the
administration in deciding this contest
and resisting this fight that the railroads
have openly declared they are going to
make on the administrations fight
that is to settle this one fact, whether
the power of the railroad corporations
or the power of the people, is the greater.
| have another question to ask Gov.
dierce, for him to answer through his
Dakota department of the Pioneer
Press. The question is: If the rail-
roads own 81 per cent. of all the prop
erty in the territory, what reason is
there why they should only pay per
cent. of all the taxes that are
paid? If Gov. Pierce will proceed ito
explain to his former friends how this
is, and why it is, will be satisfied; but
he will find that he has bigger job on
hand than he has yet tackled, and one